Tillis says that illegal immigrant drivers permits "do not equate to a driving license"? Say what? But illegal immigrant workers would have a NC issued document allowing them to drive! Fortunately, this part of the so-called "enforcement" bill did not pass the General Assembly. But a provision in the bill to essentially nullify any requirement for E-Verify did pass and leaves a gaping hole in illegal entry and illegal alien employment opportunities. Gov. McCrory tried to veto it, but Tillis and his special interest backers, e.g. the NC Farm Bureau and other high illegal use lobbying associations, were able to override his veto.

Do law enforcement officials and organizations in NC back this? Give me their names and let their recommendation stand the public gaze. Let them publicly state their positions and arguments for all to see. Rolling out a red carpet for illegal immigrants is; highly unlikely to have anything but a negative impact on public safety. It might benefit employers of illegal immigrants, but no one outside of a madhouse believes it would be good for public safety.

It doesn't take a genius to figure out where Tillis would stand on illegal immigrant amnesty and importing more cheap foreign labor for the benefit of his special interest backers. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that he cares more about them than American workers or taxpayers or national security or public safety.

Does North Carolina need a Lindsey Graham or John McCain representing us in the Senate? We do not want Obamacare or Kay Hagan, but massive importation of cheap foreign labor--legal or illegal--will destroy the nation even more quickly.

We need to get rid of Obamacare and Kay Hagan, but we need to elect a conservative to the Senate. If you back massive amnesties and massive importation of cheap foreign labor under whatever name, you are not a conservative. You are certainly not a fiscal conservative, and you have abysmally little loyalty to American workers and a peculiarly lax attitude about national security, preventing terrorism, etc.

And don't insult our intelligence by claiming giving illegal immigrant workers driver permits is much different than a drivers license by more than a few technical details. If you issue state documents to illegal immigrants that allow them to drive a vehicle in NC, you have little respect for law or the people of North Carolina.

For the first time in the United States, a citizen who has legally
registered a gun will have to submit to a renewal process. The
consequences of not knowing about this new law or missing the specific
60-day window are dire.

Starting on Jan. 2, every single D.C.
resident who has registered a firearm since 1976 must go to police
headquarters to pay a $48 fee and be photographed and fingerprinted.

If
the registrant does not go to the police station within three months
after a set time frame, the registration is revoked. That citizen is
then in possession of an unregistered firearm, which is a felony that
carries a maximum penalty of a $1,000 fine and a year in jail.

The
gun itself is put into a category of weapons that can never be
registered, just as though it were a machine gun or a sawed-off shotgun.

The
city has not made clear how it will enforce the law, but the police are
in possession of all registrants’ home addresses so confiscation and
arrests would be simple.

A federal judge declared yesterday that Oklahoma’s law defining
marriage as being between a man and a woman was unconstitutional.

“The Court holds that Oklahoma’s constitutional amendment limiting
marriage to opposite-sex couples violates the Equal Protection Clause of
the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution,” wrote U.S. District Court Judge Terence Kern.

Americans start the new year with a variety of national concerns on
their minds. Although none is dominant, the government, at 21%, leads
the list of what Americans consider the most important problem facing
the country. The economy closely follows at 18%, and then
unemployment/jobs and healthcare, each at 16%. No other issue is
mentioned by as much as 10% of the public; however, the federal budget
deficit or debt comes close, at 8%.

A memorial service has been held at a western Sydney mosque for slain Muslim woman Amira Karroum, and her husband Yusuf Ali.

Ms Karroum's sister Rose requested the Masjid Noor mosque in
Granville hold the service, last night, for worshippers to mourn the
couple who were killed in Syria late last week.

Both Ms Karroum and Mr Ali were worshippers at the mosque before Mr Ali moved to Syria mid-last year.

Relatives today said arrangements were still being made to fly the couples' bodies back to Australia for burial.

Pictured
clad in a black burqa, Karroum bore no resemblance to the fresh-faced
student from one of the country's most prestigious Anglican schools when
she died in a bullet-ridden house in Syria last week.

Father
Ray Leonard, the Catholic Navy Chaplain who sued the Department of
Defense and the Navy after he was barred from celebrating Mass at Kings
Bay Naval Submarine Base in Georgia during the recent the Government
shutdown, is now the target of Government retaliation even though the
Department of Justice indicated the day after the lawsuit was filed that
he could resume his duties as a Navy Chaplain.

The
retaliation involves repeated Government assertions that the employment
contract under which Father Leonard was working is no longer “valid”,
demands that he must sign a new contract containing several pages of
onerous new terms if he wants to be paid and refusals to pay for
services he had already performed.

As
a result, the Thomas More Law Center (“TMLC”), a national public
interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, MI, on January 6, 2014 filed an
amended complaint in their original federal lawsuit to prevent further
retaliation against Father Leonard for exercising his constitutional
rights. The amended complaint added a claim against the government for
its retaliation toward Father Leonard which occurred after the filing of
the initial complaint.

Father Leonard just returned to America after spending ten years
ministering to impoverished Tibetans in China. Consequently,
withholding Father Leonard’s earnings for approximately two months left
Father Leonard himself in an impoverished condition. Yet, he continued
to minister to his congregation by scraping up enough money for food and
rent payments for housing near the Naval Base which he serves.

The budget “deal” is a raw deal for our wounded veterans, thanks to Sen. Harry Reid & Co.
But illegal invaders claiming fraudulent tax credits have nothing to worry about.
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America’s bravest were betrayed yet again today, while illegal aliens
got to keep their ill-gotten loot. Just another day in Harry Reid’s
circus of shame.

Millions of men and women who put their lives on the line for
this country are going to see reductions in their pensions, while
illegal aliens still have access to a tax credit loophole, in the Budget “fix” announced by the Senate today.

That’s right, despite a promise to “fix” those cuts to those veteran pensions, the “deal” would still leave 90 percent of those cuts in place, according Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL).

I have written before
about the moral angst sweeping the upscale Village of Cayuga Heights,
bordering the Cornell campus and home to a large number of professors
and staff, over how to control the out-of-control deer population.
After years of debate, which tore the community apart, Cayuga Heights has come up with a solution:

The board of trustees passed a resolution Monday night to
begin implementation of the phased options approach to deer management.
The village will begin with the surgical sterilization of 20-60 does
within a two-year period, followed by the culling of the remainder of
the herd.

The cost per sterilization? Don’t ask:

The first phase of sterilization is estimated to take two
years at an average cost of $1,200 per doe, according to the statement.

If they do for our health care system what they’ve done for the deer of Cayuga Heights, we’re sunk.

U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) today announced that the Omnibus
appropriations bill prevents the implementation of the United Nations
Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) by prohibiting any funding of the treaty unless
it is ratified by the U.S. Senate, which opposes the treaty. In October
2013, Sen. Moran led a bipartisan group of 50 U.S. Senators in
reiterating to President Obama that the Senate overwhelmingly opposes
ratification and will not be bound by its obligations.

During the Battle of Chickamauga
Hood received his second serious wound of the war, resulting in the
amputation of his right leg. He was transported to the Clisby-Austin
house in nearby Tunnel Hill for recuperation. Hood was so severely
wounded that his amputated leg was sent with him so that it could be
buried with the him in the result of his death. Hood ultimately recuperated and his leg was buried at this location.

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John Bell Hood lost the use of his left arm at Gettysburg and had his right leg amputated

due to being wounded at Chickamauga He was one of the very few amputees to recover from

such a severe loss of bone near the hip.

General Hood stated that he was able to ride a horse and did not require an ambulance. WOW!!!

He has been much maligned, but he was undoubtedly a courageous individual.

Nancy

Yes,
General Hood used a special saddle with leather straps holding him in
position while mounted. Really heroic: mounting a horse in battle with
one leg and only able to use one arm, that's well worth a WOW!

Astronauts are by their very nature a breed apart, none more so than the
seven pioneering men of the Mercury space program launched by NASA in
1959. Among the most famous of them was Lt. Colonel Virgil “Gus”
Grissom, who on July 21, 1961, became the second American – after Alan
Shepard – to travel to outer space, and in March 1965 the first NASA
astronaut to repeat that monumental feat. Grissom perished with his
Apollo 1 colleagues Roger Chaffee and Edward White in a launch pad fire
on January 27th, 1967, their heroic efforts paving the way to the
historic 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, fulfilling the goal set forth by
President John F. Kennedy in 1961.

Like his fellow astronauts Grissom
was also adventurous on Terra Firma, and in 1967 he took delivery of
this L71 427/435 HP Tri-Power convertible from Jim Rathmann Chevrolet in
Melbourne, Florida. Rathmann, himself an adventurer who raced in the
Indianapolis 500 14 times and won in 1960, witnessed many a race at the
expansive Cape Canaveral NASA complex between Grissom and Shepard, who
drove an identically-equipped Corvette.

Welcome back! I just wanted to write and let you know that the
syllabus is up and running on the departmental web page. I have been
instructed to direct you to the link rather than distribute individual
copies. The university needs to save money on paper so the LGBTQIA
Office can continue to offer orgasm awareness seminars and so the
Women's Resource Center can continue to promote abortion. Remember kids,
the more trees we save, the more babies we can kill!

In addition to going over the syllabus on day one, I plan to
introduce each one of you to my somewhat informal teaching philosophy.
Actually, this will be the first time I ever make a statement of
teaching philosophy, despite the fact that it is my twenty-first year to
teach here at UNC-Wilmington. In a nutshell, that philosophy can be
summarized in the phrase "twenty-seventy-ten." I'll explain it briefly,
although I do plan to elaborate in class on Monday.

Despite what Karl Marx says, there really are not just two kinds
of people in this world. That's an oversimplification, although there
are two types of communists - a) the ones who live off their more
productive comrades and b) the dead ones. But when it comes to students,
there are at least three distinct groups. They follow in order from the
least pleasant to the most pleasant among you.

No wonder she’s avoiding the president’s speech today. A new left-leaning PPP poll -- which had, by the way, a D+10 sample
-- shows embattled Sen. Kay Kagan (D-NC) losing to every single
Republican challenger vying for her job in 2014. All of these candidates
are relatively unknown, and all of them are polling slightly ahead of
her.
Time to start panicking?

Our first stop was at the Crye Precision Booth and they definitely have a
lot of great products this year. To start out they have the SIX12
Modular Revolver Shotgun, which is their key show piece and is in the
scope for future production. The standalone SIX12 Revolver Shotgun has a
short barrel and is all Crye Precision except for the Magpul Handguard
and fires Six 12 Gauge rounds utilizing a revolver style magazine.

The omnibus spending bill before Congress continues to fund U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA) advertising programs for food stamps in
foreign countries like Mexico, Breitbart News has learned.

The funding will continue
despite claims in a document the House Appropriations Committee
published that the bill contains a “prohibition” on such programs. Page
three of this press document
states regarding food stamps that the omnibus spending bill contains a
"prohibition on advertisements or outreach with foreign governments."

The entire paragraph that contains that statement reads:

Requirements for the Secretary of Agriculture to help weed out and
eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in the SNAP program – including a
directive to ban fraudulent vendors, and a prohibition on advertisements
or outreach with foreign governments.

However, upon reading through the text of the bill and the bill summary explanatory document,
there is no such “prohibition” included in it. Instead, the explanatory
document that Rogers published just states that USDA is “strongly
discouraged” from advertising food stamps programs with foreign
governments.

Designed by John Moses Browning, the M1918 Browning automatic rifle
came late in World War I, but didn’t see widespread deployment until
World War II and the Korean War. It served until the early years of the
Vietnam War, where it was superseded by the M60 GPMG.

Robert Landies III (above) is a Marine Sgt. and the Special Projects
Manager at Ohio Ordnance Works who decided that the BAR needed a 21st
Century upgrade, and the result is something that looks like a
heavily-modded AK from a distance, but which is a beast all it’s own…
and I do mean it is a beast.

A man denied entrance into a gentleman’s club in Portland, Oregon
returned with a weapon and opened fire on a bouncer and the clientele. A
bouncer who is a military veteran with a concealed carry permit pulled
his own weapon and put the thug down:

Police on Sunday afternoon said they believe the gunman
went in and started shooting, hitting the three victims. As he was on
his way out, somebody at the bar shot him. Police are not identifying
that person because they have not been charged with a crime.

The parents of a 6-year-old girl said their daughter was humiliated
when a teacher interrupted the child’s one-minute speech and told her to
sit down because she’s “not allowed to talk about the Bible in school,”
attorneys for the California family allege.

The incident occurred Dec. 19 inside a first grade classroom at Helen
Hunt-Jackson Elementary School in Temecula, Calif. The previous day the
teacher instructed boys and girls to find something at home that
represented a family Christmas tradition. They were supposed to bring
the item to school and share the item in a classroom presentation.

Brynn Williams decided to bring the Star of Bethlehem that adorned
the top of her family’s Christmas tree. She also worked on a one minute
presentation to explain that her family’s tradition is to remember the
birth of Jesus at Christmas time.

“Our Christmas tradition is to put a star on top of our tree,” the
little girl said. “The star is named the Star of Bethlehem. The three
kings followed the star to find baby Jesus, the Savior of the world.”

Before the child could utter another word, the teacher intervened,
according to Robert Tyler, the general counsel for Advocates for Faith
& Freedom – the law firm representing the Williams family.

This is my clear and succinct message to white Americans. How long will it be before “you people” realize you have elevated someone to the office of president who abjectly despises you — not to mention his henchman Holder. Combined they are the most vile and disgusting racists — not you.

The recently released spending bill would strip the salary of the White House’s
climate adviser, stop the Environmental Protection Agency from
implementing carbon dioxide emissions limits and clamp down on funding
to fight global warming.

The bill bars the White House from using any appropriated funds to
pay for the salary and any expenses for the “Assistant to the President
for Energy and Climate Change.” The office was recently vacated by former climate adviser Heather Zichal, who helped President Obama
craft his new climate plan which bans coal-fired power and was
instrumental in promoting other environmental efforts from the White
House.

The Justice Department is facing mounting criticism after officials
said they've turned up no evidence that would warrant criminal charges
in the IRS targeting scandal, with conservatives now calling the
investigation a "sham."

Officials said earlier this week that, while the FBI investigation
into IRS targeting of Tea Party and other groups is still ongoing,
criminal charges are not expected at this point.

Jenny Beth Martin, the co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, called the news "absolutely outrageous."
"It only leads us to the point where we can make guesses about their
motives," she said. "Why are they protecting the IRS? Why aren't they
getting to the bottom of it? If they don't truly do a real investigation
of this there are always going to be doubts and it is not good for the
trust between the governors and the governed."

Martin said she believes the Obama administration is attempting to
sweep the scandal under the rug, and it appears there is a cover-up.

For decades, Americans have believed countless lies about abortion:
It’s a political cause; it’s a women’s issue; it’s a constitutional
right.

Although you may think you’ve heard every argument to be made for or against abortion, the truth is you’ve only heard part of the story.

In his new book, Abortion: The Ultimate Exploitation of Women,
Brian Fisher, co-founder and president of Online for Life, reveals the
untold history of abortion and dispels the myths surrounding this
important issue.

Perhaps the most surprising fact is that legalized abortion is not a product of the women’s rights movement. In fact, many pioneering suffragists called it “infanticide.”

Fisher provides a never-before-seen look at the real
issues behind abortion and then offers a five-point plan to bring it to
an end.Abortion: The Ultimate Exploitation of Women is essential reading for anyone who wants to find practical ways to end abortion in the United States.

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While police generally need a warrant to search you or your property — during a traffic stop, police only need probable cause to
legally search your vehicle. Probable cause means police must have some
facts or evidence to believe you’re involved in criminal activity.

In other words, an officer’s hunch without evidence of illegal
activity is not enough to legally search your car. Before searching, he
must observe something real. Common examples of probable cause include
the sight or smell of contraband in plain view or plain smell, or an
admission of guilt for a specific crime. The presentation of any of
these facts would allow an officer to perform a search and make an
arrest.

The above scene was painted by Norman Rockwell in late 1945, just
after the end of World War Two. It depicts the homecoming of a U.S.
Marine, who has returned from the Pacific with a captured Japanese flag
and now commands the rapt attention of his listeners in a local garage.

The painting represents a time — within living memory, although just
barely — when there was still a commonly understood ideal of what it
meant to be an American. More honored in the breach than in the
observance, perhaps, but nevertheless a generally accepted cultural norm
of civic obligation.

The moment was before my time, but only by a decade or so. In my
early childhood that view of America remained predominant. Those little
boys in the picture were the young men of my time, and the returning
servicemen were the fathers of kids like me. What Norman Rockwell
presented in that painting and innumerable others was American normalcy,
as we all understood it. Yet it might as well have been the time of the
Peloponnesian War, for all the relevance it holds in what passes for
today’s civic culture.

By the 1970s Norman Rockwell was discredited in the eyes of cultural
arbiters in the media and academia. He was dismissed as a hackneyed,
jingoistic nostalgia-peddler, an archaic throwback in a time when the
most respected artists included Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock.

Centuries from now, when the foolish political and social fads of our
time are long forgotten, Mr. Rockwell will be regarded with the respect
he deserves. Like Rembrandt, he had an uncanny genius for depicting the
human form and face in a way that conveyed a reality that the camera
could not capture. He will be recognized as one of the great painters of
our age — assuming, of course, that we have not by then become an
American Emirate in the new Universal Caliphate, with all the graven
images of our wretched jahiliyyah faithfully destroyed.

The cultural norms and ideals represented in Mr. Rockwell’s paintings
were discarded along with his art. But this was true only within the
lofty eyries of our cultural mandarins — he remains perennially popular
among ordinary Americans, who revere his work as a reminder of what once
was, but is now gone. The memory of the old culture still lingers in
flyover country, even as it is deprecated, despised, and destroyed by
the post-modern managers of the country formerly known as the United
States of America.

For decades after most of the rest of the culture fell, the U.S.
military remained a staunch bastion of the old ways. As the battering
rams and siege engines of the long march broke down the walls of
successive institutions — the media, academia, the public schools,
commercial enterprises, the government — the military retained the
spirit that was so lovingly chronicled by Norman Rockwell fifty years
previously. The armed services functioned as a repository for our civic
virtues.

All that has changed, thanks to deliberate, cynical policies
implemented by the Obama administration. The top brass in all three
services are now more concerned with putting women into combat and
salving the feelings of their Muslim enemies than they are with their
country’s ability to win a war.

Remembrance

Winners: Navy Cross Nguyen Van Kiet & MOH Thomas R. Norris This week’s Medal of Honor hero is one of a handful of Navy SEALs awarded the MOH in the Vietnam War. Norris snuck behind enemy lines with a South Vietnamese Navy petty officer rescued two downed pilots in 1972–when most of our resources had been pulled from the country. Interesting to note that later year, Norris was himself rescued by another SEAL Michael E. Thornton.More @ Medal of Honor Roll Call

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.